Politics Quotes

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.